Posts Tagged ‘László Blaskovics’

pre-Christmas concerts

As Christmas approaches, the Fiori calendar is full of delights.

For starters, November wouldnt be complete without Fiori’s annual visit to the St Ceciliatide Festival in the City of London. This year’s celebrations take place on Sunday 18 November, and include: a Festal Eucharist in honour of St Cecila at St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street, followed by the traditional procession up Ludgate Hill to Stationers’ Hall for a lunchtime concert of Purcell and Dowland, given by the exciting young recorder ensemble Wolken.

The Festival grand finale is Fiori’s evening concert of Mozart and Haydn – when the Fiori Musicali Choir & Players will be joined by exquisite soprano, Grace Davidson (reception 6.30pm for 7pm concert – and of course the opportunity to push the boat out and dine afterwards in the splendour of the gilded 18th-century Court Room at Stationers’ Hall).

Fiori’s burgeoning new residency at the Castle Theatre in Wellingborough moves up a gear. After our recent popular lunchtime concerts, there’s Handel & the English Baroque on Saturday 24 November – an orchestral concert with . . . .

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Welcome to Autumn / Winter season

The season of mists and mellow fruitfulness takes Fiori to pastures new.

After the recent excitement of Monteverdi’s It Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda in the famous Crusader Church in Northampton (how about that for an appropriate venue!!), when soloists, choir, strings and trumpets joined forces in a variety of dramatic war-like pieces, Fiori now turn to more contemplative sounds.

Coming shortly, Fauré’s famous Requiem . . .

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Ensemble Marquise at Kimbolton Castle

Imagine another age – periwigs and fans and ladies in hooped skirts; original Pellegrinis, hanging on the walls of a splendid Hawksmoor- and Vanbrugh-designed castle. This is the atmosphere vividly brought to life . . .

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